Rotary Junkie
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Okay... My PS2 had been making a bit of noise. Then it got worse. Then worse still. And it started overheating.
It being out of warranty, I opened it up. Turned it on with the top cover off and found the cooling fan to be the source of the noise.
Soo, after a bit of thinking, I wanted to cut a hole in the top cover, but, lacking materials, I simply broke it in half at where the gloss black strip with the PS2 logo sits. I reinstalled the half with the disc tray and disconnected the cooling fan (removed the wires going to it as well). GT4 would start and run, but would get very slow despite the open-air heat sink (as it was overheating) after about 30 minutes to an hour.
Well, I decided to rig something up. A bit of thinking and I decided a case fan for a PC would be my best bet. A trip to Radioshack found me a 120mm Thermaltake 6V DC fan for $9.99 and a 6V AC-to-DC converter for $6.99 on sale. After a bit of wire cutting and splicing, I had a wall-powered 120x25mm fan. Placed on top of the heatsink area it's quite effective at pulling air off the heatsink and keeping things cool.
The downside? My PS2 has ZERO resale value and is somewhat dangerous as the fan is unprotected and unsecured, and cannot be shut off without being unplugged from the wall. Oh and said fan must be moved to change games as it is too large for the heatsink side and rests partially on the disc tray.
Hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to get a switch that I can put in-line to kill the fan, although if I get a top cover I'll be able to set something up that will look better than this, yet work much better than stock.
Ideally it would be a 90mm or so fan mounted on the top cover (hole cut to provide airflow out) with a rocker switch for master power kill (for the fan and PS2) tucked into the cover as well (or perhaps on a raised block).
Oh and I want to be able to use one power cord. Too bad I can't remember the voltage the PS2 converter uses and I'm too lazy to check.
Pics sometime soon.
It being out of warranty, I opened it up. Turned it on with the top cover off and found the cooling fan to be the source of the noise.
Soo, after a bit of thinking, I wanted to cut a hole in the top cover, but, lacking materials, I simply broke it in half at where the gloss black strip with the PS2 logo sits. I reinstalled the half with the disc tray and disconnected the cooling fan (removed the wires going to it as well). GT4 would start and run, but would get very slow despite the open-air heat sink (as it was overheating) after about 30 minutes to an hour.
Well, I decided to rig something up. A bit of thinking and I decided a case fan for a PC would be my best bet. A trip to Radioshack found me a 120mm Thermaltake 6V DC fan for $9.99 and a 6V AC-to-DC converter for $6.99 on sale. After a bit of wire cutting and splicing, I had a wall-powered 120x25mm fan. Placed on top of the heatsink area it's quite effective at pulling air off the heatsink and keeping things cool.
The downside? My PS2 has ZERO resale value and is somewhat dangerous as the fan is unprotected and unsecured, and cannot be shut off without being unplugged from the wall. Oh and said fan must be moved to change games as it is too large for the heatsink side and rests partially on the disc tray.
Hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to get a switch that I can put in-line to kill the fan, although if I get a top cover I'll be able to set something up that will look better than this, yet work much better than stock.
Ideally it would be a 90mm or so fan mounted on the top cover (hole cut to provide airflow out) with a rocker switch for master power kill (for the fan and PS2) tucked into the cover as well (or perhaps on a raised block).
Oh and I want to be able to use one power cord. Too bad I can't remember the voltage the PS2 converter uses and I'm too lazy to check.
Pics sometime soon.
